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I got three slides in and the "Swooshing!" was driving me nuts. I'm sure the content is fine, and the presentation is simply gorgeous. For me ... unusable. Ed

I got three slides in and the "Swooshing!" was driving me nuts. I'm sure the content is fine, and the presentation is simply gorgeous. For me ... unusable. Edit: In the end, at the end, I found the PDF. It seems a little light on content, but I guess I'm not the audience. Not sure who the audience would be, though.

FriedrichN 6y ago
At the end you can download a PDF. I must say I prefer that over the slow web page. To be honest I always leave a page immediately if it's way too fancy, especially when stuff starts moving and fading, I simply hate it.
sliken 6y ago
Same here, page up/down almost works, but misses text, gave up.
ksec 6y ago
Another fine Example of we cant even do Web Pages, let alone Web apps. On Safari, simple scrolling makes the content unreadable.
dredmorbius 6y ago
Disabling JS helps. PDF: https://complexityexplained.github.io/ComplexityExplained.pdf https://complexityexplained.github.io/ComplexityExplained.pd... (Multiple languages available.)
- cabalamat 6y ago
  Having read the pdf, I was underwhelmed. There doesn't appear to be any meat here, merely restatements of the obvious.
  - trenchgun 6y ago
    Maybe this could be more useful for you? "An Introduction to Complex Systems Science and Its Applications" https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/
  - dredmorbius 6y ago
    A far more appropriate title would be "Complexity: A very brief introduction to major themes with bibliography". The booklet is 20 pages covering aspects with a one-paragraph description, several examples as a bullet list, list of concepts, and two references for further readig. The title sets up rather greater expectations.
4gotunameagain 6y ago
Turn off JS, fixed :)
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  ToJ;F!
tambourine_man 6y ago
On mobile Safari, navigation is fine. It’s probably a simpler versions of the desktop one.
bpicolo 6y ago
They may want to add an option to have all the context in a single column, centered. This is hard to use on wide screens right now - it's kind of like watching a tennis match
karmakaze 6y ago
> Edit: In the end, at the end, I found the PDF. It seems a little light on content, but I guess I'm not the audience. Not sure who the audience would be, though. Thanks for that. I suspected as much. I'll wait to read something more serious, less market-y.
uyt 6y ago
For the people suggesting reading the pdf or disabling JS, you're missing the point of this submission. 90% of the value is in playing with their interactive demos. (though all of them seem to be from https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ so it might be better to go there directly instead)
- ColinWright 6y ago
  If those links are the intent of this page, the "Swoosh! Swoosh!" is a great way to hide them. There's a maxim in publishing: Don't bury the lede.
hawski 6y ago
It is so slow, that after the title slide I scrolled through three slides and stopped, because I thought something was wrong. Then the slide appeared and I realized I missed three slides, because of those animations being so slow and not at all correlated to how fast I scroll or how far I'm in.
ddoeth 6y ago
What really bothered me was that the animation only started when the new slide hit the top of the page. When I was not scrolling perfectly, the top most rows of text where already hidden.

FriedrichN 6y ago

At the end you can download a PDF. I must say I prefer that over the slow web page. To be honest I always leave a page immediately if it's way too fancy, especially when stuff starts moving and fading, I simply hate it.

sliken 6y ago

Same here, page up/down almost works, but misses text, gave up.

ksec 6y ago

Another fine Example of we cant even do Web Pages, let alone Web apps. On Safari, simple scrolling makes the content unreadable.

dredmorbius 6y ago

Disabling JS helps. PDF: https://complexityexplained.github.io/ComplexityExplained.pdf https://complexityexplained.github.io/ComplexityExplained.pd... (Multiple languages available.)

cabalamat 6y ago
Having read the pdf, I was underwhelmed. There doesn't appear to be any meat here, merely restatements of the obvious.
- trenchgun 6y ago
  Maybe this could be more useful for you? "An Introduction to Complex Systems Science and Its Applications" https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  A far more appropriate title would be "Complexity: A very brief introduction to major themes with bibliography". The booklet is 20 pages covering aspects with a one-paragraph description, several examples as a bullet list, list of concepts, and two references for further readig. The title sets up rather greater expectations.

4gotunameagain 6y ago

Turn off JS, fixed :)

dredmorbius 6y ago
ToJ;F!

tambourine_man 6y ago

On mobile Safari, navigation is fine. It’s probably a simpler versions of the desktop one.

bpicolo 6y ago

They may want to add an option to have all the context in a single column, centered. This is hard to use on wide screens right now - it's kind of like watching a tennis match

karmakaze 6y ago

> Edit: In the end, at the end, I found the PDF. It seems a little light on content, but I guess I'm not the audience. Not sure who the audience would be, though. Thanks for that. I suspected as much. I'll wait to read something more serious, less market-y.

uyt 6y ago

For the people suggesting reading the pdf or disabling JS, you're missing the point of this submission. 90% of the value is in playing with their interactive demos. (though all of them seem to be from https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ so it might be better to go there directly instead)

ColinWright 6y ago
If those links are the intent of this page, the "Swoosh! Swoosh!" is a great way to hide them. There's a maxim in publishing: Don't bury the lede.

hawski 6y ago

It is so slow, that after the title slide I scrolled through three slides and stopped, because I thought something was wrong. Then the slide appeared and I realized I missed three slides, because of those animations being so slow and not at all correlated to how fast I scroll or how far I'm in.

ddoeth 6y ago

What really bothered me was that the animation only started when the new slide hit the top of the page. When I was not scrolling perfectly, the top most rows of text where already hidden.